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E. E. CANNON.

GATE.

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APPLIGATIQN FILED MAY 12, 1909.

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ELMER E. CANNON, OF WAUKOMIS, OKLAHOMA.

GATE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELMER E. CANNON, a citizen of the United States,residing at WVaukomis, in the county of Garfield, State of Oklahoma,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gates; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to a gate and more particularly to the class ofdevices for opening and closing gates.

The primary object of the invention is the provision of a device of thischaracter in which a swinging gate may be brought to an open or closedposition and that will enable the gate to be swung into open position onopposite sides of the gate post or the fence line.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a device of thischaracter in which a hinged gate is adapted to be unlatched opened andclosed and when being opened will swing in an opposite direction fromthat in which a person or vehicle approaches the gate.

A further object of the invention is to improve the construction of thisclass of automatic gates and to provide a simple and effective devicefor operating the gate in its opening and closing movements and that isinexpensive in the manufacture.

\Vith these and other objects in view the invention consists in theconstruction, combination and arrangement of parts as will behereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings which disclose the preferred application and embodiment of theinvention to enable those skilled in the art to practice the same, andas brought out in the claim hereunto appended.

In the drawings :Figure l is a perspective view of the invention. Fig. 2is a top plan view thereof. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the latch member.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout theseveral views in the drawings.

In the drawings, the numeral 5 designates generally a swinging gateadapted to open in either direction and to swing away from the operatorto avoid frightening teams and enable the same to drive close to thegate to be opened. This gate 5, is supported by a Specification ofLetters Patent.

Application filed May 12, 1909.

Patented Dec. 14:, 1909.

Serial No. 495,448.

gate post 6 and connected thereto for swinging movement by hinges 7which are of the ordinary and well known type. The said gate is providedwith a latch bar 8 disposed longitudinally, pivoted at its inner end asat 9, and operating through a suitable elongated slot in a guide plate10, at the front or outer end of the gate. The latch bar projects beyondthe gate and is adapted to engage a double keeper 11, secured to a latchpost 12, and this latch bar is prevented from swinging past the same inclosing by a stop lug 13, formed on the keeper and disposed centrallythereof, the opposite edges of the lug being beveled to permit the latchbar to engage in the notch 14 when entering the keeper from either endthereof.

Secured vertically upon the gate post 6, is a staff or bar 15, the upperspindle extremity 16, extends considerable distance above the gate andterminates in an angularly disposed pivot terminal 17, upon which ispivotally mounted a rocking lever 18, having a slightly curved extremity19 normally overhanging the gate 5 and supporting an eye 20, to which isconnected one end of a spiral spring 21, the opposite end of which isconnected by a clevis to the gate and passing through this spring andconnected to the eye 20, is a latch wire 22, which is also connected tothe latch bar of the gate. The rocking lever 18, is formed at itsopposite end with a rearwardly and downwardly curved extremity 23,terminating in a plane considerably below the plane of the eye 20.

At opposite sides of the gate post 6 a distance removed therefrom aredisposed uprights or posts 24 upon which are mounted at their upper endsby means of pivots 25, horizontally arranged manually operable handlesor levers 26, the same being connected at their rear ends by a flexiblecable or wire 27, so that upon swinging movement of one of the levers inone direction it will effect the same movement of the other lever inunison therewith.

Connected near the gripping ends of the manually operable levers 26, aregate operating wires 28, the latter being also connected to the end ofthe downwardly and rearwardly curved extremity '23 of the rocking lever18, so that upon moving either one of the manually, operable levers 26,the gate may be swung either toward or away from the operator.

Secured to the staff or bar is a right an gularly disposed rearwardlyextending supporting arm 29, which latter terminates out of the path ofmovement of the rocking lever and is provided with a vertical pintle 8Osup porting a rotatable pulley 31 over which travel the gate operatingwires 28, upon arcuate movement of the rocking lever in oppositedirections, when the gate is being swung to an open position. that thegate operating wires 28, are shifted out of contact with the pulley 31,when the gate has been moved or swung to a closed position. Furthermoreby the connection of the manually operable levers with the rocking lever18, it is obvious that the gate may be swung by an approaching person ineither direction toward or away from said person.

Should it be desired to ham the gate re main open it is necessary for anoperator to move the manually operable lever 26, in one directionsufficiently to swing the rocking lever 18, to move the gate so that itsfront end will swing past the axis of rotation of the rocking leverwhich will prevent the automatic closing of the gate until the manuallyoperable levers are actuated by an operator. Another important featureis the fact that the manually operable levers are horizontally disposedon the posts or uprights supporting the same so that a teamster mayreadily catch hold of said levers while seated in a vehicle to open andclose the gate It is obvious without the necessity of getting out ofsaid vehicle.

From the foregoing the construction and operation of the invention willbe clearly apparent without the necessity of a more extended explanationand therefore the same has been omitted.

What is claimed is A device of the class described comprising a stafffixed vertically to the hinged postof a gate and terminating at itsupper end in an angularly disposed pintle, a rocking lever pivoted centally to the pintle and ha 'ing a forwardly curved extremity and arearwardly and downwardly curved opposite extremity, an arm fixed tosaid staff, a rotatable pulley mounted upon said arm out of the path ofmovement of the rocking lever, resilient connection between the forwardextremity of the lever and the gate, manually operable levers disposed adistance removed from the rocking lever at opposite sides thereof, meansconnecting the manually operable levers together, and connectionsbetween the rocking lever and said manually operable levers.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature, in presence of twowitnesses.

ELMER E. CANNON. Witnesses F. R. DIKEMAN, H. C. LovELL.

